Duaa Eldeib

Writer

Duaa Eldeib is a member of the Tribune’s suburban watchdog team. She has written about the criminal justice system, the realities of educational policies and a love that transcended cancer. Before joining the Tribune, she was a reporter at the Daily Southtown, where her series uncovering theft and corruption at a regional office of education led to charges and spurred lawmakers to abolish the office. Eldeib earned degrees in journalism and psychology from the University of Missouri. She loves chocolate. As in a lot. As in for breakfast.

Recent Articles

A Barrington High School student is facing several gun- and drug-related charges after authorities said he was caught at school with a firearm, ammunition and variety of illegal and prescription drugs in his possession. A swift police response and lockdown took place at the school Monday morning...

Beset by failures in leadership and in treatment of the state's most vulnerable children, Illinois' Department of Children and Family Services is hammering out a reform plan after a panel of court-appointed experts determined the agency needs a top-to-bottom overhaul if it hopes to improve the...

A pastor at an evangelical church in Deerfield was charged with the sexual abuse of a minor after he approached police and confessed to the inappropriate relationship, authorities said. The pastor, Samuel Kee, "just walked into the police station and said he had to confess to a crime," Deerfield...

The mother of a transgender student at the center of a heated national civil rights debate spoke out for the first time Thursday, writing of her daughter's devastation at being banned from the girls' locker room at her northwest suburban high school. "There were times she was inconsolable and all...

An employee of a Catholic church in the Chicago Archdiocese has filed a complaint saying he was fired after he got married to his male partner, his lawyers said Thursday. Sandor Demkovich was the music director at St. Andrew the Apostle Parish in Calumet City until last year, when he was fired...

Of all the dangers police face on the job, experts say suicide can be a surprisingly common killer. Fox Lake police Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz, though, was far from typical when he staged his own death to look like a homicide. Gliniewicz, 52, shot himself because he feared that his history of...

The outcome of a transgender student's fight for locker room access at a northwest suburban high school could reverberate nationally, as many school districts find themselves ill-prepared to handle a growing number of similar controversies that in some cases have fractured communities and put millions...

Illinois' largest high school district violated federal law by barring a transgender student from using the girls' locker room, authorities concluded Monday. The U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights spent nearly two years investigating Palatine-based Township High School District...